‘Teenage Exocolonist’ Lives Through Teen Years on Alien Planets

Being younger and figuring your self out is tough sufficient right here on Earth, however I Was a Teenage Exocolonist sees you rising up on a complete new world.

You’re a teen on humanity’s first extrasolar house colony. Which makes these awkward teen years that a lot heavier and stranger, doesn’t it? You’re not simply coping with promenade dates, however SPACE promenade dates. Although it’s a bit extra severe than that, as your decisions will have an effect on the move of your life and the lives of others on this world. Plus, who needs to go to high school and research when there’s new life kinds to satisfy and crops to find. You’ll must determine what kind of life you need to stay right here, all as you steadily get older. Assuming you don’t decide a combat with some terrible alien creature and die, I suppose.

Your experiences gives you talents in a combat, in addition to in the way you form your colony’s future. Being a expertise present champion won’t see prefer it’s value a lot in a combat, however not all the pieces in life is settled by fistfights. Many of your challenges will play out via card video games, and your experiences will load your deck with issues you need to use to assist get via the scenario. That would possibly imply you must clear up issues in unorthodox methods, however you’ve virtually all the time acquired SOME instrument that can allow you to get via. However, you would possibly must take a couple of lifetimes to have the ability to save the colony. It’s a disgrace to see your teen fall, however not all the pieces you do goes to result in a contented ending.

Seeing life experiences come collectively into distinctive playing cards that you just used to get via fights along with your mother and father as a lot as you’d use them to thump a cranky alien animal makes for a neat expertise. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist does a implausible job of exhibiting that the oddest life experiences can form your life, and makes a compelling ‘battle’ system out of a few of the goofier choices I made as a teen.



I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is accessible now on the Nintendo eShop, PlayStation Store, itch.io, and Steam.

Joel Couture

Joel has been protecting indie video games for varied websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is consistently on the lookout for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games will be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.